Death...
Her death...
The prince sat in the corner of his ice cage, now only bound by handcuffs. He cried into his hands, whimpering and sniffling.
She was gone...Marceline...was gone
He never thought of her as dead before, she's almost reached the peak of death so many times in his presence, but she was immortal, and she was still alive because he'd been there to help her.
But he was helpless, he couldn't save her this time...
and his baby...
"My fault...all my fault..."
He wanted to die, he took her out, he let this happen.
They were gone because of him.
He would never get to see his baby, never watch it grow, he felt horrible...
And Marceline, she was so happy, so beautiful, he'd never get to see her face again, or hear her sweet music and her beautiful laugh.
He wanted to crawl into a ball and die, just to see her face again, to apologize, beg her to forgive him.
Ice queen noticed the prince's mood, but she chose to ignore it .
She kept the key on her, she wasn't letting him go this time.
Yet, she still felt the tinniest bit bad watching him cry so much.
She shook it off, it didn't matter, he was hers now.
She set out some traps in the front entrance of her kingdom and ushered her penguins to leave some out in any other entrance way they knew.
Whether she had liked Marceline or not, she had still took her words into consideration, once the prince was found missing, people WOULD go here looking for him.
She was ready...
-
"Ugh...stay up!"
Marceline grunted from under her umbrella. She'd kept trying to lift it up with her little bat arms, but it was too heavy.
She didn't know how long she'd been flying out for help, but she couldn't give up now...not now.
Bubba thought she was dead, she had to save him, but she couldn't do it alone.
Man, if only Finn and Jake were here...
She was panting, she had to rest, but she couldn't...
But then the pains came.
"Ugggggghhhh!'
Next thing she knew, she was falling...
On the ground, pained, she closed her eyes...
-
Marceline stirred in her sleep, trying to get warm, even with all her fur, desperately wishing bubba was here to warm her up.
"Aadrfsgrgrgd...outside...fdfs...okay?"
Marceline's ears twitched, she could here someone mumbling, in fact, she could hear TWO people.
She tried to open her eyes, everything looked blurry.
She blinked it away to see that she was no longer outside, but instead wrapped in a mess of blankets on what appeared to be a pillow.
The voices sounded much clearer now.
Marceline weakly called out to them, "Help...bubba..."
One of the figures noticed her plea.
"Marceline! You're okay?!"
That...voice...it sounded familiar...
"Fionna..?"
"Yeah Mar, who else?"
Now she knew where she was at.
Cake rushed forward after hearing Marceline's plea herself, this time to scold her.
"Girl, what's wrong with you?! Going out in the sun like that?! Where's bubba? He shoulda been with you"
Marceline weakly responded,"mmmm...taken...ice queen.."
Fionna rubbed her hands together, she'd been waiting for something to do today.
"Ice Queen's going down then..."
Cake reassured her of her obvious stress, "Prince gumball told us you'd be out together, and when we saw you're umbrella on the ground and you under it...we had to do something"
Cake then remembered something.
"Wait? I thought you didn't have anymore powers?"
Marceline sat up, feeling a little bit more strong.
"I guess I never truly tested them ALL out to make sure"
She shifted back into her natural form, stretching out her person.
"We need to go...NOW!"
Cake stretched out and grabbed the vampire's shoulders. "No, YOU are gonna stay here and rest. Me and Fi can handle IQ"
"No you don't understand...bubba and her think I'm dead. I faked my death to escape and...and bubba thinks she killed me"
The adventuresses looked at her with wide eyes.
"Whaaaaaa" Fionna had an mixed expression, looking impressed and sad at the same time.
Cake, on the other hand, looked very upset. "Oh no, poor baby, he's gotta be heartbroken..."
"Marceline stood up, determined, "I have to come, I need to let bubba know I'm okay.."
Cake grabbed her arms and sat her back down, "nuh uh girl, too dangerous for you, we'll go tell him yourself, you're gonna stay here and rest with the baby. Bmo will take care of you"
She nodded her head towards the small robot chilling in the corner, fiddling with it's control pad.
"No, he's MY boyfriend, and I'M gonna help save him."
Cake narrowed her eyes dangerously, "You almost died once before, you really don't plan on putting your baby's life at risk AGAIN do you?"
Marceline coughed into her fist.
" . Heart Chick. "
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!"
Marceline gave her a grin, "Remember, you and fionna went searching for ice queen? You we're poisoned by the crazy heart chick? Bubba and Lord had to save your butts? Heck, you put MULTIPLE babies at risk and Lord was seriously hurt"
Fionna almost thought cake was gonna spring on her.
"Uhhhhh guys? heh, we should get moving...PG needs our help"
Marceline and Cake glared at each other, but for bubba's sake, they both stopped arguing and went back to the problem at hand.
"C'mon Fi, get your sword, I'll call flame prince for help, he'll be more than willing."
Giving Marceline the cold shoulder, the cat walked into another room.
Marceline turned towards her bunny-eared friend.
"Fi, you gotta let me help...y'know bubs will be panicked..I need him to know I'm alright, please..."
Fionna scratched the back of her head. "I don't know marce, Cakes kinda strict bout it..."
"I'm begging...that ice witch should see me, she should understand that she'll never keep me away from bubba. If I just lay back, I'll seem weak, I want to see him again..."
Fionna almost seemed to consider it, but Cake was right, it was too dangerous.
"FIONNA! C'MON LETS GO!" Cake called from the other room.
"Sorry marce..."
and Fi ran out to meet her sister.
Marceline felt betrayed. Her own friends weren't gonna help her.
She felt the locket on her neck.
"Yo bmo, do you know where my umbrella is?..."
-
Ice Queen was prepared for anything in store, she'd fought the young adventuress and her cat before, so she had an idea of what would happen when they arrived.
She managed to repair her home from the LAST time it was under attack, Marceline had smashed her though bookshelves, destroyed the roof in her bat form and had practically damaged anything she could, she caused trouble wherever she went...
IQ had never enjoyed her presence..
When she arrived so long ago, bubba wouldn't have stood in the same room with her. But now, they would never leave each other's side.
It had left her fumed with jealousy and rage watching them together so often, and when they would kiss she felt the urge to strike at them.
But that would put her gumball at risk...it was Marceline who needed to disappear forever, not her precious prince.
She never understood what made that prince so gaga for her, she was nothing more than a monster, a monster that could kill and destroy, and yet here he was, crying over her.
What did Marceline have that she didn't?
Him
With her gone, the prince should've now loved her. But he didn't look that way, she didn't like seeing him in so much pain, but Marceline was dead, he had no choice but to love her now.
WENK"UGH, WHAT?" She screamed at her penguin servant.
WENK WENK"He's upset cause his old girl left him.."
WENK WENK"What? Technically she did, and no, it's not evil. I was simplify...defeating..a dangerous monster, and preventing a new one from existing"
WEEEEENNNKKK?"It was necessary, now all of you go downstairs!" She ordered, " They'll be coming soon, and don't trip on any of my traps!"
When her penguins disappeared she looked at the prince still in his cell, he was standing up now, and was at his cage's front entrance.
"Why?..." He asked, still sobbing. "How...could you..?"
Ice queen just glared.
"Don't you have a soul?...how could you ever think killing my girlfriend and only child would ever make me love you?"
Seeing him so sad and yet so fierce made her heart drop, even if she tried to marry him now, he'd never be happy.
He stared at his shoes, "All you've ever cared about is marrying me, if you love me so much...than why do you try to cause me so much pain?"
"You we're supposed to be mine prince..." IQ grumbled, " And you'd rather be with a monster than with me"
"No IQ...you're the REAL monster"
He walked back into his cell corner and resumed grieving, leaving the queen of ice to her thoughts.
-
Fionna and cake were now crouched by the entrance, along with Flame Prince, who was discussing battle plans to cake in Cat Language.
"Meow?" The fiery boy said, fionna assumed he was asking something.
"Oh, well Marceline was with him at the time, but she made it out okay. We have her resting back at the treehouse" Cake answered back, speaking English, in order for fionna to understand.
"Meow Mow?"
"Well no, I can't be truly sure with Marceline, but if she loves her baby, she'll let us handle the situation."
Fionna peeked inside the castle, gumball was in his ice cage, ice queen was roaming around.
There were LOTS of ice traps set around, one misstep, and your frozen solid.
"Hey uh guys, she was definitely expecting us..." fionna said, quietly. "Place is mad booby-trapped"
"Than how should we get in?" Cake asked.
"uhhhhhhh" the adventuress said, scratching her head. "Maybe we could sneak in after IQ falls asleep?."
"Girl, that could take too long..."
Than an idea came.
"How about I shrink down and go talk to gumball, tell him Marcy's okay, and then distract frost breath?"
"That's perfect!"
And with that cake shrunk down to an ant, carefully maneuvering her way across the icy floor to the prince's cell.
No ice queen in sight.
Gumball appeared to be sleeping on the floor, based on his red eyes, he'd been crying heavily.
"psssssstttt, prince?" The cat whispered, she grew bigger and tapped the pick prince on the shoulder. "Get up, we're here to rescue you"
Bubba mumbled in his sleep, Cake could've sworn one of them sounded like 'Marceline".
"Geez, you two really ARE crazy bout each other aren't ya?"
She resumed shaking the prince, eventually he opened his eyes.
"Cake?" He said, sleepily.
"Yeah dude, me and fi are here to get you out" Cake whispered loudly.
Bubba sat up, remembering what was happening. He was captured, fionna and Cake were here to save him, and Marceline...
He felt as though he was gonna cry again.
"Marceline...She's..."
Cake wrapped her arms around him in order to comfort the prince.
"Naw baby..." She said, "Your vampire is fine, she's alive, me and fi found her, safe and sound.."
Gumball looked at her sadly, "No...you..you couldn't...she couldn't have survived that..."
"Indeed she couldn't" Said an harsh voice coming from the door.
Ice Queen.
"Vampires may be immortal, but they aren't completely invincible, she's dead..."
Fionna and FP jumped out from their hiding spot.
"ICE QUEEN, WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM?! TRYING TO KILL RAD VAMPIRES AND THEIR KIDS, NOT COOL!"
FP made a hissing noise at the queen, he still hadn't forgotten the time she had imprisoned his Fire Lion Pride's cubs.
"What do you mean by COOL, TOMBOY?! I'm the ice queen! I'm the QUEEN OF COOL!"
They needed her crown, take the crown, and she's powerless.
ZAPCake was now trapped in an ice block. She tried to squirm her way out, but with no luck.
"CAKE!" Fionna yelled.
"Sorry fi, she got my stretchy muscles REAL stuck"
The ice Queen lurked towards fionna, but before she could do anything...
"AAAAAHHHH!" The icy witch wailed. Fp had fire-blasted her in the face in order to protect fionna.
"YOU"LL PAY FOR THAT! YOU BRATS!"
Prince Gumball and Cake watched as the 3 clashed together in an epic fight. Fionna was desperately trying to grab at the Queen's crown in order to depower her, while Fp was trying his hardest to distract her from fionna.
Eventually ice queen blasted fionna, pushing her to the other side of the room.
"Fiwoma!" Fp exclaimed, his flames grew bigger as he tried to overpower the ice queen.
Ice queen could feel herself melting a little, so in response she balled up and spit onto the fire elemental.
"Owww" He shrank down, giving IQ enough time to blast him before he gained his strength again.
He flew across another side of the room, he was turning purple, a sign of death for any fire elemental.
"FP!" Fionna jumped up and tackled the Queen from the back, reaching for her crown.
The outside of the ice Kingdom turned dark, clouds were swirling the skies.
Ice queen had the home advantage, her icy floors made a small trap around fp, still unconscious.
Spikes rose from the floors, trying to help defend the queen, but fionna struggled to stay on.
" .GO!" She pushed fionna off her back, and prepared to blast her.
But..
"Excuse me..." A figure in a black cloak and wearing a welding mask stepped in. "But I believe you have something of mine..."
She took off her mask.
"Marceline?..." The prince in the cage's face lit up the moment he saw her.
She wasn't dead...
Cake didn't look happy, " GIRL I TOLD YOU TO STAY AT THE TREEHOUSE!"
"Yeah, whatever! this is MY problem, and I'm gonna fix it!"
It was only then did everyone realize Marceline was carrying something on her back..
Her Axe Bass...
Marceline realized what they were all looking at and gave them all a wink.
"Ah you noticed? Made my way back to the kingdom and picked this bad boy up. The morrow gave me a ride."
Ice queen just glared at her, she was shocked, of course, but she was already furious enough from her home being attacked.
"You survived..."
"You actually think you can kill the most powerful vampire in Ooo? How funny. You weren't even smart enough to look under the umbrella"
Fionna scooted away from the queen and grabbed her sword, she then proceeded to make her way across the floor to help fp.
Marceline gave the rival queen a toothy grin, "Now how about you do everyone a favor and leave before I make things even uglier"
The ice queen wasn't intimidated by her threats, and with Marcy as weak as she was, this should be a piece of cake.
She flew towards the vampire queen , proceeding to make the first strike.
But she disappeared, a small squeaking noise could be heard from above.
"WHERE ARE YOU RUNT?!"
She started to shoot ice blasts at the small bat hovering above her, making it easier to access-
"My crown! WHERE'S MY TIARA?!"
Marceline hovered down and shifted back into her natural form, "Take a look, birdbrain"
Fionna, after freeing FP, has snuck around back and had taken her crown.
Now powerless, ice queen could do nothing as Marceline pounced on her, holding her axe up to IQ's neck.
"Man, I wish I could kill you...but some people out there don't deserve such kind treatment." She said angrily, " NEVER attack me AGAIN, and if you so ever even touch a hair on Bubba or my kid's head, glob's help me I will make sure you NEVER show your ugly face here AGAIN"
Fionna helped Fp stand as she took IQ's keys and walked over to the jail cell.
Fp, regaining his strength, melted gumball's chains and Cake's ice block, giving them freedom.
Gumball's first instinct was to run towards his girlfriend as fast as possible.
Marceline released ice queen, she couldn't do much now.
The lovebirds embraced each other, they were crying and laughing, mostly crying and refused to let each other go.
Cake elbowed fionna, who was standing next to flame prince, accompanied by an eyebrow wiggle.
"Ow, no cake"
Gumball was hugging Marceline really tight, as if this was all a dream he never wanted to wake up from.
"Grod, don't ever scare me like THAT again..." He immediately kissed her forehead, once, twice, three times. "I'm so sorry...I-I should have never taken us out. We put so much on the line..."
"Bubba hey...whoa...it's okay..." She said, hugging him back just as tight. "It was still a fun night out...besides the brush of death"
"Really?"
She responded by giving him a quick peck on the lips, "Does THAT answer your question bubby?"
He gave an awkward laugh, remembering that his friends were watching them.
The couple looked down at the ice queen, she was cowering on the floor, terrified out of her mind when Marceline had put her axe to her head like that, she even had a glimpse of the vampire queen's demonic red eyes.
Gumball bent down to the queen on the floor, "Ice queen..." He said sadly, "I'm sorry...I'm sorry that I can't feel the same way..."
"Prinnncccee..?" The miserable women groaned.
"I can be the first to tell you that love isn't as simple as it looks..." He said, he looked at Marceline. "You can meet many people, fall in love again and again. But if you chase after one opportunity for too long, you may miss another. Maybe there is someone out there for you, you just haven't found him yet..."
Then he did something no one had expected.
He kissed the ice woman's forehead.
"Goodbye Ice Queen, may you someday find true happiness with someone."
He stood up, seeing all the shocked reactions all around him.
"Shall we go?"
-
Marceline was once again in her wierd sun-protection garb, as the four rode on cake's huge back towards home.
"I'll send my servants to collect our things from the hills" Gumball said, he was much cheerful now, but definitely a little exhausted.
"Good, I couldn't carry that stuff when I was small and furry" Marceline sighed, "I wonder if any of my other abilities still work..."
"If so, we'll look into it, safely of course"
Fp was awkwardly sitting on some tinfoil in order to not burn cake's fur. He shifted nervously, ice queen's saliva felt worse than any body of water imaginable.
Fionna scooted by him to keep him company, the guy didn't know much English, but he enjoyed her presence nonetheless.
"Their real cuties aren't they?" Marceline said from under her mask.
"Yeah, yeah they are..." Gumball said smiling.
"bubba?"
"Hmm?"
"What was up back there with the ice queen?"
"Oh um..." He bit his lip for a moment, " I feel like anyone out there should be happy, and I just want to see IQ be happy with someone who feels the same..."
"So you kissed her?"
"As a way of telling her I mean it, she'd listen to my words a lot more if I'd done something affectionate towards her..."
He couldn't tell, but her face was skeptical. "You really think someone like ice queen can find somebody?"
"Yeah...if a demonic vampire, a pink prince, a fire elemental raised by cats, and a magic cat or dog can find it, She sure can. She has feelings..."
Then he gave her an eyebrow raise.
"Why, were you jealous?"
"What me? Of her? Pl-ease"
He nuzzled the front of her mask.
"You totally were..."
He tickled her sides, they both laughed. Marceline, from his movements, gumball, from seeing her adorable reaction.
"Love...?" Fp said, finally saying some decipherable English. He nodded towards the prince and the queen, both still goofing off.
Fionna looked too, a grin was spreading on her face.
"Yeah dude, their in love..."